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It's a real-world analog.

Imagine there is an object recorded at location x,y,z at time t. This is all we know.

If I later tell you the object was recorded at location x,y,z, you have no idea what time it was captured. If I later tell you the object was recorded at any location other than x,y,z (even if only z changed by some epsilon) you know that that it was captured at some time other than t.

If you guarantee the second recording I'm showing you was not taken before time t, you know it is a more recent recording, because it would be not earlier than and not equal to time t.



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